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By CONRAD WILSON 14 MINUTES AGO
... law enforcement had a confidential informant working for them, as they were setting up to make the arrest of Ammon Bundy and the other occupiers on Jan. 26. A guy named Mark McConnell was driving the jeep that Ammon Bundy and Brian Cavalier were in. McConnell alerted law enforcement both in terms of their location. He also provided law enforcement with a threat assessment.
It was an Oregon state trooper, Jeremiah Beckert, who identified Bundys driver, Mark McConnell as the government informant. McConnell complied with police orders to stop his vehicle during the arrest ...
http://nwpr.org/post/informants-tip-leads-malheur-arrests
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted September 21, 2016 - 4:42pm
Updated September 21, 2016 - 6:13pm
... Trooper Jeremiah Beckert said ... informant Mark McConnell alerted police that Bundy and other occupiers were traveling Jan. 26 and provided their location.
Beckert then described the ensuing traffic stop and arrests. He said he did not see what happened to Robert LaVoy Finicum ...
U.S. District Judge Anna Brown warned attorneys not bring up the circumstances of the Finicum shooting in front of jurors. When it was mentioned, she told jurors this trial is not about the Finicum shooting ...
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/bundy-blm/trooper-testifies-driver-ammon-bundy-was-government-informant
NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)4 HOURS AGO
... Shortly after the arrests McConnell began publishing videos on social media encouraging people not to believe reports about what had happened, specifically reports that FBI agents shot LaVoy Finicum as he was trying to surrender ...
... Beckert described helping arrest the individuals in McConnells Jeep before moving forward to help the officers at the road block where Finicum .. drove his truck into a snowbank ...
Also Wednesday, a detective who investigated Finicums killing testified to the weapons found at the scene ...
http://klcc.org/post/informant-tipped-osp-day-arrests-several-malheur-occupation-leaders
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Eileen Park and KOIN 6 News Staff
Published: September 21, 2016, 6:00 am
Updated: September 21, 2016, 6:38 pm
... Beckert testified that he was in an unmarked pickup on the side of Hwy 395 when the group of occupiers were pulled over for probable cause on federal charges, not because they had committed a traffic violation.
He added that Ammon Bundy was not armed at the time of the arrest ...
Beckert told the court the high-risk traffic stop was a once in a lifetime incident.
Prosecutors showed the jury guns and rounds of ammunition recovered from the scene. They also played video of 4 off-screen shots fired at the FBI plane that was overhead during the traffic stop ...
http://koin.com/2016/09/21/fbi-to-testify-about-arrests-of-malheur-occupiers/
malaise
(267,824 posts)Thanks for the update